Relax Ng,9780596004217

Relax Ng

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ISBN13: 9780596004217
ISBN10: 0596004214
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-12-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

With this new title, developers will learn a no-nonsense method for creating XML schemas. RELAX NG (Regular Language Description for XML Core-New Generation) is a grammar-based schema language that's both easy to learn for schema creators and easy to implement for software developers. This book offers a clear-cut explanation of RELAX NG that enables intermediate and advanced XML developers to focus on XML document structures and contents rather than battle the intricacies of yet another convoluted standard.

Author Biography

Eric van der Vlist is the resident expert on XML schema languages on XML.com. He is also a member of the ISO DSDL committee, where standardization work on RELAX NG and related specifications is in progress. Eric is also the author of O'Reilly's XML Schema.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
James Clark
Foreword xi
Murata Makoto
Preface xiii
Part I. Tutorial
What RELAX NG Offers
3(5)
Diversity
3(1)
Keeping Documents Independent of Applications
3(1)
Validation Has Many Aspects
4(1)
The Best Way to Validate XML Document Structures
4(1)
RELAX NG's Diverse Applications
5(1)
RELAX NG as a Pivot Format
6(1)
Why Use Other Schema Languages?
7(1)
Simple Foundations Are Beautiful
8(6)
Documents and Infosets
8(1)
Different Types of Schema Languages
9(1)
A Simple Example
10(2)
A Strong Mathematical Background
12(1)
Patterns, and Only Patterns
13(1)
First Schema
14(10)
Getting Started
14(1)
First Patterns
15(5)
Complete Schema
20(4)
Introducing the Compact Syntax
24(7)
First Compact Patterns
25(3)
Full Schema
28(1)
XML or Compact?
29(2)
Flattening the First Schema
31(14)
Defining Named Patterns
33(1)
Referencing Named Patterns
34(1)
The grammar and start Elements
35(1)
Assembling the Parts
36(6)
Problems That Never Arise
42(1)
Recursive Models
43(1)
Escaping Names Pattern Identifiers in the Compact Syntax
44(1)
More Complex Patterns
45(17)
The group Pattern
45(1)
The interleave Pattern
46(2)
The choice Pattern
48(1)
Pattern Compositions
49(1)
Order Variation as a Source of Information
50(1)
Text and Empty Patterns, Whitespace, and Mixed Content
51(3)
Why Is It Called interleave?
54(3)
Mixed Content Models with Order
57(2)
A Restriction Related to interleave
59(2)
A Missing Pattern: Unordered Group
61(1)
Constraining Text Values
62(18)
Fixed Values
62(1)
Co-Occurrence Constraints
62(8)
Enumerations
70(1)
Whitespace and RELAX NG Native Datatypes
70(2)
Using String Datatypes in Attribute Values
72(1)
When to Use String Datatypes
73(1)
Using Different Types in Each Value
74(1)
Exclusions
74(2)
Lists
76(2)
Data Versus Text
78(2)
Datatype Libraries
80(24)
W3C XML Schema Type Library
80(18)
DTD Compatibility Datatypes
98(3)
Which Library Should Be Used?
101(3)
Using Regular Expressions to Specify Simple Datatypes
104(16)
A Swiss Army Knife
104(1)
The Simplest Possible Pattern Facets
105(1)
Quantifying
106(1)
More Atoms
107(8)
Common Patterns
115(5)
Creating Building Blocks
120(40)
Using External References
120(14)
Merging Grammars
134(15)
A Real-World Example: XHTML 2.0
149(4)
Other Options
153(7)
Namespaces
160(28)
A Ten-Minute Guide to XML Namespaces
160(5)
The Two Challenges of Namespaces
165(1)
Declaring Namespaces in Schemas
166(5)
Accepting Foreign Namespaces
171(8)
Namespaces, Building Blocks, and Chameleon Design
179(9)
Writing Extensible Schemas
188(23)
Extensible Schemas
188(18)
The Case for Open Schemas
206(2)
Extensible and Open?
208(3)
Annotating Schemas
211(39)
Common Principles for Annotating RELAX NG Schemas
211(15)
Documentation
226(12)
Annotation for Applications
238(12)
Generating RELAX NG Schemas
250(25)
Examplotron: Instance Documents as Schemas
251(7)
Literate Programming
258(6)
UML
264(6)
Spreadsheets
270(5)
Simplification and Restrictions
275(30)
Simplification
275(20)
Restrictions
295(10)
Determinism and Datatype Assignment
305(18)
What Is Ambiguity?
305(10)
The Downsides of Ambiguous and Nondeterministic Content Models
315(3)
Some Ideas to Make Disambiguation Easier
318(5)
Part II. Reference
Element Reference
323(48)
Compact Syntax Reference
371(38)
Datatype Reference
409(58)
Part III. Appendixes
A. DSDL
451(7)
B. The GNU Free Documentation License
458(9)
Glossary 467(6)
Index 473

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